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Andy and Anthony each draft the same seat in a virtual pod of Andy’s Sacred Geometry Cube. They talk through each of their picks and their overall draft strategy and the final decks they end up with.
If you want to draft this same seat as well, either before or after listening to the episode, follow these steps:
Download the predetermined booster packs
On Draftmancer:
If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous draft episodes.
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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
7:28 - Pack 1
41:48 - Pack 2
53:03 - Pack 3
01:03:59 - Draft Results

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Andy and Anthony discuss feedback received by a fellow cube designer: that particular decks are sometimes too dominant when they go uncontested, or as they put it “The Open Lane Problem”. They talk about whether or not this is a real problem in different contexts and ways you might be able to mitigate it.
Discussed in this episode:
100 Ornithopters
Bun Magic Cube
Regular Cube
Neoclassical Cube
Turbo Cube
Support The Podcast on Patreon
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:43 - Mailbag!
7:35 - The Open Lane Problem
14:19 - The Effect of Narrow Cards
26:44 - Powering Up Archetypes
35:36 - Player Preferences
42:09 - Solving the Open Lane Problem
45:34 - Changing Cube Size

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By popular demand, Andy and Anthony rush back into their series exploring modal mechanics through Magic’s history. Continuing where they left off, they talk about mechanics from Return to Ravnica to Fate Reforged. They argue over some mechanics fit a useful definition of “modal” and what the mechanics, and individual modal cards, offer to Cube designers.
Discussed in this episode:
Song-Poem Documentary
Modal Mechanics 001 — Some Nonzero Number of Mechanics Are Kicker
Modal Mechanics 002 — Some Modal Mechanics Evoke a Strong Response
Reading Rainbow Cube
100 Ornithopters
The Design of Everyday Things
Lucky Paper Patreon
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
3:03 - Modal Mechanics: Part 003
4:44 - Scavenge
9:03 - Bloodrush
17:17 - Fuse
27:30 - Bestow
36:03 - Monstrosity
37:59 - Will of the Council
42:27 - Sieges
48:41 - Planeswalker Addendum

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Andy and Anthony look back at their last year playing Magic. They talk about their highs and lows, playing cube while engaging little with Magic’s release cycle, the continued grown of community, and Lucky Paper’s projects.
Discussed in this episode:
Lucky Paper Events Page
100 Ornithopters in a Cube-Shaped Box by Rhystic Studies on YouTube
Lucky Paper Patreon
Cube Fellowship and Supporter Pins
How to Quickly Shuffle Your MTG Cube Anthony’s Article on the Broadcast Shuffle
List Formatter
List Differ
XKCD Is It Worth the Time? and Automation
The Ball Pit
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:52 - Year In Review
7:22 - High: Regional Scene Development
11:47 - High: Weekly Cube Nights
12:56 - High: Ignoring Magic Product
16:32 - High: Rhystic Studies Video
18:23 - High: Patreon
21:13 - High: Cube Fellowship
22:41 - High: Playmat V2
24:18 - High: Deepening Relationships
26:58 - High: Broadcast Shuffle
29:46 - High: List Formatter
31:07 - Low: Klug Alter
33:43 - Low: Less Friends at Cubecon
38:19 - Low: Playgroup Growth Woes
44:10 - Low: Pins
46:46 - Low: Website Maintenance
50:32 - Magic: The Gathering
58:08 - Cube Person of the Year
1:32:59 - State of the Pod

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Andy and Anthony talk about bad cards. Why do “bad cards” even exist? Can’t all the cards just be good?
Our hosts talk about why they like playing with bad Magic cards and how Cube gives them the flexibility to play with whatever cards they like regardless of how they stack up to the other 30,000 cards in the game. They talk about ways they conceptualize a bad card in different formats and the inevitability of their existence. They also reflect on the differences between thinking about Magic as a player vs a designer and how player mentality and hamper design thinking. And also, for some reason, wolves.
Discussed in this episode:
Mark Rosewater’s When Cards go Bad
Parkers Article on Bad Cards
The Alpha Myth Episode of Unexplainable about Alpha Wolves
Andy’s Take Five Brainstorming Videos on YouTube
The Oldest School
The Ball Pit
Turbo Cube
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
3:55 - Bad Cards
6:42 - What is a Bad Card
22:05 - The Fundamental Constants of Magic
29:44 - In Defense of Bad Cards
35:18 - Bad Cards in Cube Design
43:58 - Combat is Beautiful
49:30 - Recontextualizing Bad Cards